Location
Leeds (Flexible hybrid working model with other locations considered including Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Cambridge, Basingstoke, Croydon, Nottingham, and Birmingham)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Join AECOM's dynamic Nature team as a Senior Ecologist and contribute to shaping the future of the environment. You will work on a diverse portfolio of ecology programs and projects across sectors such as power and renewables, infrastructure, environment, and transport. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including landscape, GIS, engineering, sustainability, and drainage experts. Key projects include some of the largest solar farms in the UK, energy transition initiatives, habitats regulations assessments, and masterplanning for new residential developments.

Your responsibilities will include supporting the preparation of high-quality and commercially astute bids and tenders for ecological services, planning and organising all phases of ecological project work to meet programme and budget requirements, delivering high-quality consultancy and advisory services, developing pragmatic solutions to complex ecological issues, and producing ecology chapters for environmental statements and protected species licence applications. You will also author or technically check project deliverables to ensure excellence.

At AECOM, you will thrive in an inclusive, forward-thinking environment with access to career development opportunities, technical practice networks, AECOM University, volunteering days, and a flexible hybrid working model designed to support your work-life balance. Become part of a global team dedicated to delivering a better world through innovation and sustainable infrastructure solutions.

Experience
Demonstrable experience in planning and delivery of ecological services on projects in the UK or Ireland.
Excellent field skills in at least one specialist area including any protected species licences.
Experience mentoring and supporting ecology team members.
A proactive approach to Health and Safety.

About you
Committed to delivering high-quality ecological consultancy and advisory services.
Strong communicator able to work effectively within teams and with clients.
Enthusiastic about innovation and pragmatic solutions to ecological challenges.
Values diversity and inclusion and thrives in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications
Membership of an appropriate professional institution and evidence of working towards Chartership (such as CIEEM or related).
Well-developed understanding of relevant wildlife conservation legislation and best practice.